Was it ethically acceptable of me to buy Volume I of Robert A Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning 3000-page Lyndon Baines Johnson biography, get bored by page 3, then exchange it for the Justin Timberlake

I hope someday to become this maniacally devoted to a project. So far my project-perseverance record is a couple years at a couple hours a week.

― raw feel vegan (silby), Saturday, 12 May 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

guy is too effin' slow, he better live to 90

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 May 2012 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Caro makes by far the most convincing case for RFK Maturing than any one of the hagiographers I've read. Apparently he really did create a professional, elite Justice Department and did care about the poor.

oh, to have such an Attorney General once again ...

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Jon Stewart seemed a little cowed by him the other night--hardly joked around at all.

― clemenza, Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

after reading that Esquire profile I'd be cowed too.

― raw feel vegan (silby), Sunday, 13 May 2012 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

alright i have a library copy of master of the senate

― markers, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:50 (11 months ago) Permalink